When using XML with the Microsoft.XMLDOM ActiveX object I had to put the xml:space attribute to every element where I do not want to remove the blanks at the end of the text. When trying to add an attribute with the name "xml:space" I do not get the result I want. Following short code I have to use to set the xml:space attribute in .NET (C#):

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.LoadXml("<ROOT/>");
doc.DocumentElement.InnerText = " 1234 ";

XmlAttribute e = doc.CreateAttribute("xml", "space", http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace);
e.Value = "preserve";

doc.DocumentElement.Attributes.Append(e);

2 Comments

• Michael Schwarz said Monday, February 16, 2004 2:04:00 PM

  Yes, the posted code will add the xml:space=&quot;preserve&quot; attribute!

• kishore said Thursday, July 1, 2004 7:01:00 AM

  xml:space (preserve) 'preserve'
  what does it do and what r the requirements needed